Originally posted by Hortlund
Not really.
German troops in Russia usually shot their victims.
You can look all you want, but you wont find any accounts of unpunished gangrapes or even rapes. Perhaps it had to do with the "untermench"-mentality.
It was so absurd, that a German soldier could kill a whole barn full of people and recieve no punishment at all, but if he raped one woman he was stripped of rank and sent to military prison. This was true even in the SS units whose only job was to butcher civilians, any soldier found guilty of rape was sent to military prison (or later, transferred to the really diddlyed up units like 36th SS "Dirlewanger").
You are missing the point, what do you think will be a "better" revenge, to simply kill people randomly, or rape the women and THEN kill someone too?
One of the most used techniques by occupying and humiliate a country, in the past times, was (and I suspect it is still, Yugoslavia docet) to kill animals and devastate fields, make the victed people feel "untermensch" by using random violence, closing roads, cutting supply, violating property, hitting religious centers, negating education AND raping women to humiliate them and the men survived by exerting a sexual supremacy.
Every army since the old times have been involved in such episodes, sometime knowing perfectly what they were doing, and it's still happening today.
No country in the world can claim to be innocent of such atrocityes, even if officially prohibited by the war law.
P.S.
Some of the above cited tactics of occupation are used by the Israeli army in Occupied Territory, but this is a little OT
